The deadline for the submission of abstracts has been extended to 24 February 2018. —- TARN launches a call for papers for two events to be held from 11-13 April in Brussels. On 12-13 April, a Conference on Performance, Operability and

On Tuesday 6 February, Professor Jens Blom-Hansen from Aarhus University presented the paper ‘Reputation and Organizational Politics: Inside the EU Commission’ at ARENA in Oslo. The presentation was part of the TARN lecture series. The paper, written by Jens Blom-Hansen and

TARN Partner Ellen Vos’ paper entitled ‘EU agencies on the move: challenges ahead’ has been published by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies. Since the 1990s, the number of EU agencies has increased steadily and rapidly. While they have

TARN launches a call for papers for two events to be held from 11-13 April in Brussels. On 12-13 April, a Conference on Performance, Operability and the Accountability Overload of EU Agencies aims to take a closer look at the current

On 6 February 2018 Professor Jens Blom-Hansen (Aarhus University) will present his paper ‘Reputation and organizational politics: Inside the EU Commission’ at ARENA in Oslo. This paper uses reputation theory to address a century-old puzzle: what guides the choice of coordination efforts

Marko Milenkovic, ‘European Union Agencies and Third Countries – Increasing Opportunities within Differentiated Integration’ (26 January 2018) Decentralised agencies are now indispensable feature of executive governance in the European Union. There is hardly an area of EU engagement without an

Sevasti Chatzopoulou, ‘The EU Agencies’ Role in Policy Diffusion beyond the EU: EEA, EMA and EFSA’ The extensive literature on the EU agencies has mainly focused on their role in the harmonisation and expansion of regulatory standards within the EU.

TARN launches a call for papers on ‘Information Sharing and European Agencies: Novel Frontiers’. A workshop will be held on 23 May 2018 in Florence, at the EUI. The purpose of the one-day doctoral and post-doctoral workshop will be to debate

Emilia Korkea-aho and Päivi Leino: ‘Is Glyphosate safe? We have the right to know’ (15 December 2017) In November 2017, after a great deal of political maneuvering, the EU Member States decided to extend authorization for glyphosate, the world’s best-selling